Tuesday, January 31, 2017


  • charles darwin 
  • 1809-1882 
  • was training to become a physician in the beginning 
  • founder of the field of biology particularly evolutionary biology 
  • gallapagos islands 

proconsoul


  • greek for before consul 
  • habitat is the jungles of africa 
  • existed in the micone era 
  • proconsul may have been the first true ape 

  • humans come from homo erectus 
  • prosimions consit of leeemurs 
  • old world monkeys consist of babons 
  • neww world monkeys are spider monkeys 
  • great apes are gorillas and arangatangs 
  • chimpanzees are active during the day time 
  • social organization 
  • live in communities 
  • mating 
  • sex is promiscuous 
  • courtship does exist 
  • high ranking female chimps have more offspring 
  • males prefer to mat with older, expirenced women 
  • communication 
  • complex system of vocalizations 
  • body language 
  • human like facial expressiones 
  • chimpanzes are male dominant